Frieze Week Artist Talk: Yunchul Kim

Yunchul Kim (b. 1970) is an artist, an electroacoustic music composer, and the founder of Studio Locus Solus in Seoul. His works have been shown internationally including: ZKM, Germany; Ars Electronica, Austria; International Triennial of New media art, China; VIDA 15.0, Spain; Transmediale, Germany; ISEA, Germany; and New York Digital Salon, amongst others. Kim was the winner of the Collide International Award 2016, CERN, and was awarded the third prize at VIDA 15.0, Vida Foundation in 2013. He has received grants from renowned institutions and organisations such as Ernst Schering Foundation, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art. Having taught in several academic institutions, Kim was chief researcher of the research group Mattereality at the Transdisciplinary Research Program at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. He is a member of the art and science project group Fluid Skies as well as Liquid Things, an artistic research project at the Art and Science Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

Siegfried Zielinski (b. 1951) is the Michel Foucault Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS, where he teaches as a professor of mediology and technoculture. He is also the chair of media theory, with a focus on archaeology and variantology of media at the Berlin University of Arts, honorary professor for art and media at the Budapest University of Arts, and is curator at the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media (ZKM). From 1994-2000 he was founding rector of the Cologne Academy of Media Arts, from 1998-2016 he established and directed the Vilém_Flusser_Archive in Cologne and Berlin, quite recent, from Feb 2016 to March 2018, he was rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts & Design.

Zielinski has published numerous books and around 200 essays, primarily in the areas of history and theory of media and the arts. In 2011 he completed the five-volume book series on Variantology – Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences, and Technologies. Since 2013 he is working on a Genealogy of Media Thinking and Media Acting; so far three volumes have been published in German, 2014, 2015, 2017. Amongst his more recent monographs in English are Deep Time of the Media, which was published by MIT Press, 2006 (also in Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and Russian), [… after the Media] — News from the Slowly Outfading 20th Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Allah’s Automata, a ground-breaking research catalogue, with Peter Weibel (Hatje & Cantz, 2015). University of Minnesota Press will publish a selection of his essays, written between 1975 and 2015, beginning of 2019.

Zielinski is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts, the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, a.o.

Mónica Bello (b. 1973) is a Spanish curator and art historian. Over the last 15 years she has focused on the multidisciplinary perspectives and the narratives of today’s techno-scientific culture. In her curatorial research and projects she discusses the way artists instigate new conversations around emergent phenomena in our society and culture, such as the role of science and new knowledge in the perception of reality. She is currently the Head of Arts at CERN at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva where she curates the research-led artistic residencies and the new art commissions that reflect on the conversations and interactions between artists and particle physicists. She is also the Guest Curator of Audemars Piguet Art Commission for Art Basel 2018. Prior to her arrival to Geneva she held the position of Artistic Director of VIDA (2010-2015) at Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (Spain), a pioneering award that fostered cross cultural expressions around the notion of life. She initiated and ran (2007-2010) the Department of Education at Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón (Spain). She has curated exhibitions and events internationally with contemporary artists, creators and thinkers of different disciplines. As an internationally recognised figure within art and science networks, Bello is a regular speaker at conferences and participates in selection committees, advisory boards and mentorship programs.

Je Yun Moon (b. 1978) is a curator and writer who works and lives in London. She has worked in various areas of art, architecture and performance projects at Anyayng Public Art Project, Venice Architectural Biennale, Nam June Paik Art Center. She was the curator at the Korean Cultural Centre UK from 2014 to 2018 and was the associate curator for 2018 Artist of the Year: Yunchul Kim. Her other exhibition projects at the KCCUK included Rehearsals: The Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive (2017), Artist of the Year: Koo Jeong A (2016), Inventing Temperature (2015), The Pleasure of Exhibition (2015, Art Sonje Center, Seoul). Moon completed her doctoral thesis at Goldsmiths College in Choreo-graphy: The Deinstitutionalisation of the Body and the Event of Writing.

The Artist talk was part of KCCUK's 2018 Artist of the Year exhibition Yunchul Kim: Dawns, Mine, Crystal.